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Emergencies in Spine and Spinal Cord Imaging

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Recent Advances in Diagnostic Neuroradiology

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Abstract

A wide range of imaging modalities is at our disposal to examine patients presenting in an emergency situation. The choice of just one imaging technique or the combination of different imaging modalities ,will largely depend on the clinical questions to be solved. Technical advances have shifted medical imaging from plain film radiography towards (helical) computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Conventional polydirectional tomography and myelography can be used occasionally to solve specific puzzling cases or when patients cannot be examined otherwise (e.g. contraindications for MR examinations).

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Van Den Hauwe, L., Van Goethem, J.W. (2001). Emergencies in Spine and Spinal Cord Imaging. In: Demaerel, P. (eds) Recent Advances in Diagnostic Neuroradiology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56662-2_26

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